
A missed opportunity as Evangelion usually gets meta, but at the end of the day, this isn't what the series is. The Steele conspiracy was a nothing burger, and the social project also didn't mean much as it was all Shinji's happiness the entire time. There was a Steele conspiracy teased from the first volume and the whole artificial human project. Add even more fanservice to that, and we have the Shinki Ikari Raising Project. Shinji slips, tumbles, or gets pushed and like a magnet right on the girls. There is no overall plot it's just tropes and fanservice much fanservice as Shinji is always an accidental pervert, that's the running gag of the entire series. A new comedic Gendo who is plotting and scheming on how to be the father of the year. A harem of Shinji simps who are just there to make Shinji look like a Chad.

New characters and characters that were dead in the original have come back from the dead like both Shinji's mom and Asuka's mom. We have all of it, the beach episodes, the fireworks festival, the school competitions, the camping trip to the mountain, and even the references to the original Evangelion through battles in the simulation. It is a series of chapters starting all your favorite anime tropes. Nope! Nothing! They took the path of least resistance with them being all together, and it was really about the memories we made along the way.Īs for the rest of the series, besides the main romance plot. They didn't leave a vague answer of him picking someone. Disappointing to say given how in the volume it looked like he was going to pick Rei, but it just didn't happen. In the love triangle of who would Shinji pick and be the best girl? Well, he doesn't pick anybody, and it just ends with them being the three BFFs, I guess?. Yep, we get a slice of life featuring the characters from Evangelion we got Asuka playing the childhood friend and Rei as the distance family member from his mother's side. It is also a Playstation 2 Visual Novel of the same name, which the manga was adapting as its template. Well, there are not robots to get into as this is an Alternative universe based on vision Shinji saw in the final episode of the Anime. Let's get in the robot and blow the whistle on the entire series. We are finally here! The conclusion, to the longest-running manga based on Evangelion, finishing with 18 volumes. Yep, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project, the final book.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project, the final book.
